Ph.D. City University of New York
Her specialties include cultural studies; cinema; Italian literature
and culture; psychoanalysis; and visual theory.

Professor Pinkus is the author of Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising
under Fascism (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1995; winner of the Marraro
Prize for the best book in Italian Studies in 1996) and Picturing
Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality
(University of Michigan Press, "The Body, in Theory" series, 1996).
A forthcoming book, Everyday Death, takes the form of notes for an
unrealizable screenplay on a celebrated murder case from 1950s Italy
(she is also working on adapting the case for the screen). Professor
Pinkus has translated works by Giorgio Agamben and Renato Barilli from
Italian; she has also written on a variety of topics including;
photography, futurism, race and representation, anamorphosis and
anorexia in the visual field, and punk rock. She currently serves
a coordinator of graduate admissions in the department.